Custom Category Pages

[Beneaths]

I've spent a good quality of time trying to find a answer for this and I'm sure if I kept putting more time into it, I could manage to figure it out but I'd love a little help.

I decided I needed a custom category page for my clients website. Currently it is set up where they want the following:
domain/Category1/Category1.2/Post

Category1: Must list out all categories such as Category1.1, Category1.2 etc

Category1.1 (and so on): Must list out all posts that are in the 1.1 category

Each category needs a excerpt above the posts/category links in order to post a description about the categories/posts that are linked.

So far, I decided a custom category.php is needed and I've been struggling since. Any help to point me in the right direction would be great.

I'm at the point that maybe essentially just making it a post may be better but the automation of having the posts automatically added due to it being a category seems nice in the long run instead of having to keep reediting the categories..

[Brad Dalton]

Try pre_get_posts with conditional tags

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[Beneaths]

Ended up brain storming a different way to just push the layout to the client and I'd update him when I figured out a cleaner version.

Parent Category issue:
Decided I'd make category specific ID pages so, category-22.php etc in which would have the following code:
(This would allow for only the main category pages to list off the subcategories)

<?php
 
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'sk_show_subcategories_do_loop' );
/**
 * Displays a list of linked child categories on category pages
 */
function sk_show_subcategories_do_loop() {
 
	$cat = get_query_var('cat');
	$category = get_category ($cat);
 
	if ($category->cat_ID) {
		$children = wp_list_categories("orderby=id&depth=0&hide_empty=0&title_li=&child_of=".$category->cat_ID."&echo=0");
		// change depth to 1 if only the top level sub categories should be shown i.e., with children NOT expanded
		if ($children) {
			echo $children;
		}
	}
 
}
 
genesis();

Subcategory issue:
And to solve the subcategories only listing off the posts in the titles only, I used the following code:
(Subcategories would only display post's titles)

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'sk_show_titles_only_category_pages' );
/**
 * Show Linked Titles Only for Posts in Category Pages
 */
function sk_show_titles_only_category_pages( $query ) {
 
	if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_category() ) {
		$query->set( 'orderby', 'title' );
		$query->set( 'order', 'ASC' );
		// $query->set( 'posts_per_page', '2' );
 
		//* Remove the post info
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 12 );
 
		//* Remove the post thumbnail
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_image', 8 );
 
		//* Remove the post content
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content_nav', 12 );
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_permalink', 14 );
 
		//* Remove the post meta
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_open', 5 );
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_close', 15 );
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_post_meta' );
		
		remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
		add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'sk_custom_loop' );
	}
 
}
 
function sk_custom_loop() {
 
	//* Use old loop hook structure if not supporting HTML5
	if ( ! genesis_html5() ) {
		genesis_legacy_loop();
		return;
	}
 
	if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
 
			do_action( 'genesis_before_entry' );
 
			printf( '<article %s>', genesis_attr( 'entry' ) );
 
				do_action( 'genesis_entry_header' );
 
				do_action( 'genesis_before_entry_content' );
				// printf( '<div %s>', genesis_attr( 'entry-content' ) );
					do_action( 'genesis_entry_content' );
				// echo '</div>'; //* end .entry-content
				do_action( 'genesis_after_entry_content' );
 
				do_action( 'genesis_entry_footer' );
 
			echo '</article>';
 
			do_action( 'genesis_after_entry' );
 
		endwhile; //* end of one post
		do_action( 'genesis_after_endwhile' );
 
	else : //* if no posts exist
		do_action( 'genesis_loop_else' );
	endif; //* end loop
 
}

Next step: Try to use conditional tags to display the codes instead of having to have so many custom category id pages. Essentially, just a cleaner layout.

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